The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...
Generally, mainstream malware attacks tend to focus on consumer-oriented operating systems like Windows. It’s rare that Linux is specifically targeted which makes this discovery concerning. Linux ...
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.
Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) is a use-after-free race in the Linux kernel that lets a local user gain root on Linux and Android ...
Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon ...
As attacks on the operating system grow more serious, the company is teasing a plan to bring “verifiable integrity” to Linux. If there’s one thing guaranteed to grab attention in the computer security ...